The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-16
News of the Week.

An endemic of fiux has reached alarming
in the counties of Botetourt,
Roanoke, Bedford and Amherst, in Virginia.
1t is said that Secretary Bayard is in very
poor health. His face is exceedingly pale,
and he has long periods of extreme exhaus-
ton.
The biennial convention of the Hebrew CON
eregation of the United States began in Pits
burg on Tuesday. About $50 delegates were
present.
The enlisted, regularly organized and
equipped militia of the United States is 49,
AS troops, Differed by 1880 commissioned
officers.
John D. Van Gorden, 60 years of age, was
stung by bee on the wrist at Dingman's
Ferry, Pa. on Wednesday morning of last
week, and died shortly after.
The sloop yacht Mystery, having on board
a party of excursionists, capsized in Jamaica
Bay, Long Island, on Sunday evening, and
twenty seven lives were lost.
Francis Rondo, the Wisconsin pioneer, who
died last week at Fond du Lac, aged more
than one hundred years, is said to have left
454 descendants in three generations.
A tornado and hail storm passed over por-
tions Of Hughes and Sully counties, Dakota,
on Monday night. Hailstones as large as
hens eggs ruined the crops, while the wind
blew down a number of buildings.
The health authorities of st. Louis have
ascertained that the cows in the infected dairy
of Henry Vessels died of peri. pneumonia, not
pleuro- pneumonia. The disease is much more
serious than the ordinary Texas fever.
While rock was being blasted on the line
of railroad extension in York county, South
of rowder were accidentally exploded. killing
nine men. one white and eight colored.
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i1e .,,as orros,o5 IN Julv 3 charged
5"eo,J;,s 3I'a oovarnr,ont bv means of
for .n claims He has admitted his puilt.
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ciPal OF Ihe American hsylu,I iot t,,e o Gen,
ana panio, anu one Vi tne eA5.'es' NJ.
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Inc weather III ohIcaso 9u'.n . .I i 49,.
weeks mas peeh unpreceuenteu, ene nlsuee'
daily temperature averaging over o. aeees,
ana TINS MISUNDERSTANDING lne saGt sn".: uu
tnTee GAYS IN the ia''er part oi june 1t i"''seu
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New Jersey, aied Ia az Ne" Druns"icN, r.,
aggu - years ee ma e. pora aa II, fnrtvone Of
mao peen priest lll'y c years nors NJ VI
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Chns Won DER Ahe, manager Oh she Hl.
LOUIS base Dali cup, was arrested IS, on ouhuay
last, Tor playing Dase pan. me me game was
with the Baltimore orioles' Inc Inc a Tres was
maze aller lne HIS. inning i1'sn' 'nou''"u
people were present
MISS sloia Meets coin'iis1.eu s1 TG; a. ne.
nome IN oranain couety, N s o"iol,na, y"
ihe ou INST, sne uay hAeu Ior ner i ma
because her iatner threatened 10 XIII 9ohn
Ammons, 10 whom sne was ehgageu' II he
appeared on tne premises
The deaths in Philadelphia, Pa, last week
numbered 555, which was ITO more than dur
ing the previous week ana o. more than our
ing the CORRESPONDENCE erioo last year. VI tne
total number OF deaths z4o were Oh Infants
under one year.
The Methodist summer schools at Round
Lake, New York, were opened on Tuesday.
Senator Evarts made an address on line
National Value OF Education, and remarks
were also maze Dy GENERAL III oeshola anu
heV. Dr. d. 4. Newman
While watching a thunder storm from their
piazza, near Opehka, Alabama, on Monday,
Mrs. John Bankhead and her three children
were struck by lightning. Two OF the chill
dren were killed, and the other child and the
mother are in critical condition.
- During colored funeral at Mount Pleasant
tennessee, on tuesday: mne OF the partci-
pants, who TOOK shelter from violent tnunder
storm under tree IN the graveyard, were
killed by single flash Of lightning. The
victims included the minister and his wife,
and the mother and two sisters ofthe deceased.
Nine Cinnamon have died in Mott street,
New York, within fortnight, nearly all of
them of quick consumption. Their physl-
cans blame the hght Chlnese diet as peing
insufficient IN TINS climate, and have issued
bulletin advising change to wholesome
American iood, IN the nope that TINS may les
sen the death rate.
Tenement houses in New York present an
awful record of mortality whenever there are
few successive days of very hot weather.
Last week there were III dzio deaths IN the
whoie Guy, anu Vi these o1f occurred III teheI
ment houses. NO less than "a per cent oil
the deaths IN the tenements were OF children
under hive years OF age.
A despatch from Roam, Indiana, says that
on Wednesday the town was attacked by q
cloud of insects, resembling millers, so dense
that lights had to be lighted. The pests COW
cred everything. business was suspended for
a time, and bonfires were built, which drew
the insects, and their bodies were soon piled
up IN great heaps around each tlre.
Pleuro. pneumonia appeared in Westches.
ter. New York. few DAYS ago. The disease
has extended to the large stock farm of VIM.
Havemeyer. on Throgp's Neck, where a mum.
Der of valuable blooodded cattle have been
taken sick. The COWS on the farm of George
McKettrick, near Westchester village. are re
ported as diving with the disease. as are those
on the farm of j. Thinner.
During the fourth race at Brighton Beach.
New York. Tuesday. coming NV the stand tbe
first time. Leslie fell. Wanderment went
over her and Tbomasia rolled over the two,
Chandler, who rode Wanderment. escaped
unhurt Koerber, ON Jessie, broke his left
arm, and Harris, Thomasias Jockey, bit his
tongue in twain, fractured his skull, had his
Jaw broken, and sustained internal injuries.
A a;.,.,.o,,, aood o.oa h, A.. h.i.;e
a dam on Tuesday occnrred at Tbomnsanss
Falls Idaho. tisrenorted that many br;dges
and the greater portion of the towns Of Noun
tain City and York have been swept away. and
il is feared that many wagons and teams on the
roads have been caught in the torrent. The
damage to mining property has been great,
and there are fears that n number of lives